Reading List

Important Reading to Get Up to Speed for New Lab Members

These papers are most directly related to our current active projects, so you should be sure to read them in detail and ask many questions about them.

1. The Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel: a resource (Lusis et al., 2016, JLR)

2. Systems Genetics for Mechanistic Discovery in Heart Diseases (Rau et al., 2020, Circ Research)

3. Mapping Genetic Contributions to Cardiac Pathology Induced by Beta-Adrenergic Stimulation in Mice (Rau et al., 2015, Circ Card. Genetics)

4. Systems Genetics Approach Identifies Gene Pathways and Adamts2 as Drivers of Isoproterenol-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy and Cardiomyopathy in Mice (Rau et al., 2017, Cell Systems)

Other Readings

1. Systems-based approaches for investigation of inter-tissue communication (Seldin & Lusis, 2019, J Lipid Res)

2. Small Animal Models of Heart Failure (Riehle & Bauersachs, 2019, Cardiovascular Research)

3. Contrasting Genetic Architectures in Different Mouse Reference Populations Used for Studying Complex Traits (Buchner & Nadeau, 2015, Genome Res)

4. A Guidebook for Human Genetics (Pritchard, 2023)

Tutorials

1. A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R

2. Visualization Course in R (slides in upper right corner)

3. How to Pick the Right Visualization

4. How to Write an Abstract

5. Ten Simple Rules for Structuring Papers

6. Making Beautiful Presentation Slides

7. Have a suggestion? Let me know!